The State Capitol is rolling out the red carpet for our 7th Annual OSCF All-Stars Tournament in Salem on Friday, October 10 (a statewide inservice day)! If you are on the alphabetical list of all qualified players (see this post for links to individual lists), and haven’t already registered, register online by clicking here. Details and rules for the tournament can be found in this document. Note that regular Registration closes at midnight on Friday, October 3, so be sure to get yourself on our list. We look forward to a great day of celebration and chess. Contact us with questions!

[11/12/14 update: Registration deadline extended! You can now register for this tournament until Saturday morning!]

Registration is now open for the 2nd Annual KFE Benefit Tournament on Saturday, November 15. This tournament is is a qualifier for the OSCF 2015 State Championship.

Last year the tournament netted $1753 and 425 pounds of food for Bethlehem House of Bread, a community center in Tigard that hosts a food pantry, community garden, and meeting space.

Players who attended last year’s tournament will be pleasantly surprised by recent improvements in the venue. The pews have been removed from the former sanctuary to accommodate the tournament play, and the new skittles room (where the games were played last year) will be served by a concession stand in the adjoining kitchen.

This year’s tournament will have five rounds and G/35 time controls for three sections: Primary (K-2 unrated/U600), Elementary (3-5 unrated/U600), and Middle School (6-8 unrated or U900). The High School (9-12 unrated or U1200) and Advanced (1200+) sections will have four rounds and G/45 time controls.

Saturday, September 20th: Chess players of all ages, beginner to advanced, are invited to play in the Coquille Chess Tournament at the Coquille High School Library. Registration is 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. for this all day event. Fee is $10 and trophies will be given out for Elementary, Middle School, High School and Adult divisions. Players rated over 1200 play in the Elite Division and compete for cash prizes. Tournament is NWSRS rated.

Sunday, September 21st: Chess players of all ages, beginner to advanced, are invited to play in the Coquille Chess Tournament at the Coquille High School Library. Registration is 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. for this all afternoon event. Fee is $10 and compete for cash prizes. Tournament is NWSRS rated.

If you are one of the invited players to the October 10, 2014 All-Stars Tournament in Salem, Oregon (see this post for links to individual lists, or this alphabetical list with all qualified players), you can now register online by clicking here. Details and rules for the tournament can be found in this document. Note that regular Registration closes at midnight on Friday, October 3, so be sure to get yourself on our list. We look forward to a great day of celebration and chess. Contact us with questions!

As you can see, we’ve been making some changes to the OSCF.org website. We needed some upgrades, and hopefully, once the changes have settled in, links and menus will work better across all platforms. It will take some time to get the site working and looking the way we want it, so please bear with us while we’re making the changes. In the meantime, if you are experienced in web design and administration (we use wordpress), and are willing to help with web maintenance and design, we’d love to have your assistance — please contact us!

The Summer 2014 All-Stars List has been compiled for rated events completed and rated* as of August 31, 2014. Do let us know if you think that we have calculated something incorrectly; we’ll check to see and add you as appropriate. Congratulations to everyone on the list! (*See note re Oregon Open Scholastic.)

All-Stars lists are published each trimester of the year. You are eligible to participate in the 2014 7th Annual Oregon All-Stars Invitational, which we are planning to hold in Salem on October 10, 2014 (registration information should be posted this week), if you appear on any of the three All-Stars lists published during the year (in January, May, or September; here is a summary of all 2014 lists). You are also eligible if you appear on the 2014 Lifetime Achievement list. Finally — and this is a new addition for this year — you are eligible to attend if you are a member of the Order of the Knight who has played a NWSRS rated game between 9/1/13 and 8/31/14. We hope to be able to see you in October!